moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence
just past noon; afternoon
manual or physical labor; manual or physical labour
being extremely busy; being swamped with work
turn (in line); order of things; sequential order
cardboard box; carton; corrugated box
label (i.e. sticker); label (i.e. record label)
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
(in) her way; peculiar to her
objet d'art; item of artwork; object; curio
orderly; regular; systematic; well-organized; well-organised; trim
clothes; clothing; garments
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
cavity; hollow; void; hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.)
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
clever; shrewd; canny; smart; quick; prompt
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
imagination; supposition; guess
to be silent; to say nothing
posture; pose; position; attitude; approach; stance
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
curing (meat, etc.); preservative treatment
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
to attempt; to test; to try out
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
festival; feast; carnival
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
enjoyment; pleasure; diversion; anticipation; looking forward to
to help each other; to cooperate
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship